Fibromyalgia and medicine – My own thoughts and experiences
Twenty-five years ago, I was diagnosed with a relatively new termed disease call fibromyalgia, affecting the tissue system throughout the body with various points of pain triggered in different areas. Treatment was through anti-depressants, anti-inflammatory drugs, biofeedback, etc. At one point, I was taking 7500 mg a day in drugs to numb the neural messages being fed throughout the body from the brain/mind center. This continued for about three years, until one morning I woke up and flushed/threw away all medication I had been taking. To me, the affects of medication were far worse than the reason I began taking the drugs to begin with. At the time, I was working in a hospital and the same day I crossed paths with my own doctor – stopping her and letting her know, not all drugs were removed from my body and my life. She just looked at me and said, “You can’t do that! Some of the drugs were narcotics and you can not just STOP taking them!” My only response was “it’s already done ...